07 10 25 - BASW Community Social Work Special Interest Group (CSW SIG)

to 7:30pm
About this event

Community-based Social Work (CSW) is definitely NOT dead in the water.

Nations facing country-wide disasters know they need to support whole communities. It is time for a revival of our collective understanding about what CSW is and what it can achieve.

If you have an interest in CSW or have ever used CSW skills, join colleagues at this meeting and be part of the BASW Community-based Social Work Special Interest Group (CSW SIG).

If you wish to know more, please contact Vita Snowden, Chair of the CSWSIG, on v.snowden@derby.ac.uk

The next BASW Community Social Work SIG meeting is on Tuesday 7 October 6:30pm-7:30pm.

At the last meeting it was agreed that we would have a generic discussion about how we build Community Social Work practice / knowledge / theory into workloads, particularly for statutory social workers, but for any of us, given the trend is for caseloads.

Even if you're not in that position currently, it would be great to have your top tips/views and thoughts.

On another note, I am pleased to announce that I will be launching a Community Social Work module, here at Derby, for the first time, in the near future.

Maybe some of my students might join us if their passion can be ignited.

And to finish on a really positive note, active member Fergal and his colleagues have just launched an amazing website about Community Development, aimed at people in Northern Ireland, but there are so many rich resources on the website that you may be interested in and are relevant to other parts of the UK/globally. Fergal may want to say a bit more at our next meeting or the one after.

We will be having a meeting in November but not during December/January as I shall be away for most of those months. Exact date will be sent out soon.

I will be there about 10 minutes before the meeting starts.

Best wishes, Vita Snowden (Chair of the SIG)